Author: Shelly Jyoti

REVIEW 2012 , LOOKING FORWARD 2013

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REVIEW 2012

Curatorial Exhibition ‘ Vastram: Splendid Textiles of India’ 

Traditional Textile Museum Cambodia

Catalog: Published curatorial essay Splendid Textiles of India: Cotton|Cloth|Culture

Indian Council of Cultural Relation ICCR November 2012

 

Art Exhibition ‘Care Package’ Group show Twelve Gates Gallery Philadelphia USA

Art Exhibition ‘20th Anniversary Exhibition’ Group show Woman Made Gallery Chicago

Art exhibited UNITED ART FAIR New Delhi September 2012

 

ART INDIA reviews INDIGO works on a title ‘BLUE DYED GIRLS’ by Sandhya Bordewekar vol17, September 2012 edition

THE QUILTERS UK spring 2012 magazine-Published article on ‘Indigo Narratives’ series Brinda Gill

 

Published art works SAHITYA AKADEMI Indian English literature, at IL268- March April 2012 edition

Published artworks” ‘Shringara’ – by Dr Alka Pande,:’My prerogative’ ‘The Three Generations’

 

15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE –Allahabad Paper presentation

‘The utopia of Indian Textiles: Commerce, Cloth, cotton’

LOOKING AHEAD 2013

INDIGO: SHELLY JYOTI& LAURA KINA Chicago Cultural Centre January-April 2013

Paper presentation MELUS conference Chandigarh February 2013

SOLO ART EXHIBITION Salt: The Great March, India International Centre New Delhi

Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina at the Chicago Cultural Center January 26- April 27, 2013 Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman

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Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina at the Chicago Cultural Center January 26- April 27, 2013 Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman

Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina at the Chicago Cultural Center

 

Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina
Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman
January 26 – April 2, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:30-7:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Rooms
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60638

Artist talk with Shelly Jyoti, Laura Kina, and Pushipika Frietas, President of MarketPlace: Handwork of India
The Chicago Rooms
12:15pm Thursday, January 31, 2013

Employing fair trade artisans from women’s collectives in India and executing their works in indigo blue, Indian artist Shelly Jyoti and US artist Laura Kina’s works draw upon India’s history, narratives of immigration and transnational economic interchanges.

View the online exhibition catalog (you need flash for this):
http://www.laurakina.com/indigo-culturalcenter.html
Download a pdf of the brochure Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina Chicago Cultural Center
Watch the 2010 video on youtube Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina

Indigo: Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti –The torrid history of Indigo is reimagined by artists from Chicago, USA and Gujarat, India. Indigo: Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti presents complementary bodies of artwork by Indian artist Shelly Jyoti and US artist Laura Kina in a range of media including hand-embroidery on khadi fabric, indigo resist dyeing, Sanskrit calligraphy and mixed-media on canvas. The narrative threads running throughout the artists’ work evoke India’s colonial history, stories of immigration, and the tensions and transformations of cultures evolving in a changing world. This traveling exhibition was featured in three venues in India in 2009-2010 (Red Earth Gallery in Vadodara, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, Nehru Art Centre in Mumbai) and is currently touring the US in 2011 (ArtXchange Gallery in Seattle and Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami). The accompanying exhibition catalogue features three essays: Johny ML -“Indigo Inscriptions” Murtaza Vali – “The Dye That Binds: Indigo Iconographies” Michelle Yee – “Moving Materials: Reclaiming Histories of Migration” To view the exhibition:

Shelly Jyoti https://shellyjyoti.com/indigo-narratives/

 laura kina http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html

THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea @ Tao Art Gallery & Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai-December 2012

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THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea @ Tao Art Gallery & Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai-December 2012

Video Installation and Poetry Performance

Tao Gallery and Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai

Saturday December 22, 2012

 

AN ODE TO NEEL DARPAN

My video installation for the Midnight Tea in Mumbai is inspired by a literary text ‘Neel Darpan’ (1860) written by Dinbandhu Mitra. I will be constructing a narrative of the play ‘Neel Darpan’ in poetry of words performing and examining the period where the indigo farmers died of hunger ,unsung and unheard . The video installation builds on my art work from ‘Indigo Narrative’ series 2009-12.”

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‘ VASTRAM :THE SPLENDID INDIAN TEXTILES’ Curatorial project- November 2012 Cambodia

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‘ VASTRAM :THE SPLENDID INDIAN TEXTILES’ Curatorial project- November 2012 Cambodia

 

Curatorial project 2012

‘VASTRAM : THE SPLENDID WORLD OF INDIAN TEXTILES’

Curator: SHELLY JYOTI

Project by: Indian Council of Cultural Relations

Curatorial Essay: The Splendid Indian Textiles: Cotton|Cloth|Culture

Indian textiles were a principal commodity in the trade of the pre-industrial age and were prized for their fineness in weave, brilliance in colour, rich variety in designs and a dyeing technology which achieved a fastness of colour unrivalled in the world. Indian cottons had achieved global reach by trade dominating world’s textile market during the sixteenth century. As a curator of this, I had proposed to categorise the Indian textiles in three categories of painted printed, woven-non-woven,embroidery and embellishments . Further investigated the  global influences on new materials, machine spun yarn for handloom cotton and synthetic dyes for vegetable and mineral dyes .The role  of Indian government after independence  as how Indian textiles sustained with new techniques, technology introduction, research on documentation and yet conserving the traditions.

Upcoming shows 2012-13

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Upcoming shows 2012-13

EXHIBITION SCHEDULES:

UNITED ART FAIR INDIA
27-30 September | Pragati Maidan | New Delhi
BEYOND MITHILA SERIES :Exploring the Decorative

CARE PACKAGE
Shelly Jyoti:Reciprocity of love:shagun
October 5- November,2012
Twelve Gates Art Gallery
305 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-253-8578

INDIGO: WORKS by Shelly Jyoti & Laura kina
January -March- 2013
Chicago Cultural Center-Chicago IL USA